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Show Duty ZPlx-tat. There is really nothing that pays so well as doing one's duty. Shirking has never been profitable or pleasant from Jonah's time down to ours. Most of us know what it is to go about our. work with irresolution and great dissatisfaction dis-satisfaction with regard to results, just because of some neglected duty of the morning which ought to, have been done first. It might be only so simple a thing as writing a letter, . which som,e! far off watcher is looking for with anxious interest, and which we know ought to have been done, but still put off; but this neglect will do much towards making us uneasy, and so far paralyzing our working power.' : 4- . ; If you have anything to do, do it and get through with it; then you can go heartily about the next business bus-iness at hand. If the work is one of kindness and blessing to another, then will you, find it doubly for your interest to do it promptly. The Lord is the best paymaster, and he notices even a cup of cold water that you give .o refresh another. He will give tenfold into your own bosom all that you bestow on others, whether it is kindly words or material ma-terial aid. I could fill a fair-sized volume with instances of this kind that have come within my own observation obser-vation or experience. If you do not believe in the philosophy, try the experiment for yourself.. Not that you should do good for the sake of the reward; but when the Lord gives ' us a promise, it is but an act of faith to look for its fulfillment. He has said, "Give and it shall be given unto un-to you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over;" and thousands can come on the witness stand to-day and testify that He is true to His word. |